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Pastimes : The New Qualcomm - write what you like thread. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: quartersawyer who wrote (2085)	9/11/2000 1:41:06 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12231

Not worrisome to you, but worrisome to a LOT of other people [maybe for no good reason, but they are still worried]. As investors, we need to know whether, when the true body count is in, it will be enough to cause a political or technological or lawsuit problem. The cellular investigations Dr Moulder did was shining radiowaves on cells and assaying them to look for DNA breaks. Unsurprisingly, they didn't find any. But what they should do is irradiate the cells with xrays, which DO cause breaks and then xrays plus radiowaves [giving a total higher energy input] and see if there is an increase in breaks when the radiowave energy is added. That's what is happening in the real world. We have a background of ionizing radiation, then we plug a cellphone into the side of our head to boost the energy by a very tiny amount. That extra energy from 2GHz photons combining with the xrays which give a kick to a particular bond is what matters. Although the extra kick would be microscopically less than the high energy from an xray coming to a halt, it would be like a straw on the camel's back for some number of the bonds. Imagine if all cellphone companies suddenly get statistically-based lawsuits [with people with tumours in their brains able to show that a certain proportion of tumours are in fact caused by cellphones]. Damages could be punitively high if jury-awarded money in the USA is anything to go by. Hot coffee can be worth millions. So imagine what a tumour would be worth - say a family lost a high income father or 4 children lost their mother. Multiply that by how many brain tumours there are and the % blame that cellphones radiation might get...especially if there's any bad or negligent [or cover-up] attitude from the industry. Also, if some tiny risk is shown from cellphones, imagine the boost to sales of low radiation cellphones like CDMA phones. You do yourself an injustice as a sculptor. The greatest value is in the imagination. The rock cutting can be allocated to the science journeymen. Irwin and co invented CDMA. They leave the Silicon carving to Intel and other contractors. I think even Michelangelo eleganza.com had help with the Sistine Chapel citiescommerce.com Maybe not, but I know Reubens had helpers! Investors have to be the great sculptors, understanding all the risks which matter. This one matters to a LOT of people. I'm quite competent in understanding scientific stuff and holding an opinion on it and extending it. I'm right until proven wrong. Sort of like photons are everywhere in all states until proven, by observation, to be right...there... I've given the case. I can't think of anything wrong with it. Neither can you so far [except that you think it's such a stupidly small problem it's not worth wasting time on, which is probably true]. That makes it the extant correct scientific conclusion! Where's the Nobel Prize? Mqurice

To: quartersawyer who wrote (2085)	9/11/2000 7:52:26 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 12231

Another Great Sculptor hands the dirty work on to an artisan to carve the rock: <SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 11, 2000--QUALCOMM Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM - news), pioneer and world leader of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) digital wireless technology, and Tellus Technology Incorporated, a developer and manufacturer of wireless terminal products and Internet Protocol (IP) networking solutions, today announced that they have entered into a CDMA modem card license agreement. Under the terms of the royalty-bearing agreement, QUALCOMM has granted Tellus a worldwide license under QUALCOMM's CDMA technology and patents to design and market modem card products for CDMA and High Data Rate (HDR) applications. ``QUALCOMM is pleased to license its technology to Tellus Technology for the development of CDMA and HDR enabled wireless Internet solutions to fulfill the demand for wireless Internet connectivity in the rapidly expanding CDMA marketplace,'' said Steve Altman, president of QUALCOMM Technology Alliances. ``Tellus Technology further supports QUALCOMM's vision of providing CDMA-enabled devices with innumerable applications to consumers and businesses worldwide.'' > The real science is in the idea. That's why Einstein is the hero. He just came up with some ideas on paper. Other people build the giant accelerators under the Geneva countryside decades [now millennia] later Okay, maybe my [X]Xrays + [M]Microwaves = [2C]Cancer from boosted wave function energy for the electron which gets kicked off the bond and links a handy carcinogen in, isn't quite as cool as E = MC2, but it's quite good. X + M = 2C We get 2C rather than just C because the total energy a brain receives from ionizing background radiation is quite small compared with the total energy a 500 minute a month user gets from their combined background + cellphone dose. True, I have no idea what the total energy received from background ionizing radiation actually is, nor how much the cellphones contribute, but the equation won't look so good if the cellphone 500 minute per month energy is trivial compared with the total background energy received from the xrays and gamma rays etc. There is a challenge for a scientific artisan rock carver! They can prove my theory false by simply showing what must be easily available on the Web "total ionizing energy" received from background sources and then showing that "500 Minute a month energy" is not a blip on the total. So now I have to find out the total 500 minute a month energy and the background monthly energy from ionizing radiation. Then I'm ready to count tumours to see if I get 2C. THEN I should be able to collect my Nobel Prize. Mqurice